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America's oldest journal of contemporary world affairs. Founded 1914.
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Joined August 2013
To further tide you over through the summer, our latest Global Trends issue is also all free access (for a limited time)!.
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A reminder to our readers: Current History does not publish June, July, or August issues. We will return to our regular monthly schedule with the September 2025 issue. Meanwhile, enjoy free access to all articles in our May issue—our annual Africa issue.
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Please enjoy free access to all essays in our annual Africa issue, for a limited time, courtesy of UC Press! Contributors include @MikeWoldemariam, @FaeezaBallim, @emmanuelmogend1, Bamba Ndiaye (@TheAfricanistP1), @ursulamread, @ayork6, @DanielAgbiboa.
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In our latest issue, @JoshuaLustig reviews Adam Shatz's biography of Frantz Fanon — its close readings of the works of this prophet of anti-colonial revolt make him appear as relevant as ever, in the centenary of his birth.
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A new biography of iconic anti-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon emphasizes how his psychiatric practice informed his radical politics, and vice versa.
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In our latest issue, @DanielAgbiboa surveys the manifold consequences of state neglect in Nigeria, where people are calling for accountability and reform rather than more praise for their resilience.
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Systemic state failures have left Nigerians struggling to survive a cost of living crisis, inaccessible health care, climate-related disasters, and rising insecurity.
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In our annual Africa issue, @ursulamread and @ayork6 explain how mental health care in Ghana relies on both both medical treatment and traditional and faith healers.
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In many African countries, traditional and faith healers are popular options for treating mental health problems. But there are serious concerns about healers engaging in potential human rights...
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Free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our annual Africa issue by @MikeWoldemariam, on the similar conditions and interdependencies that resulted in political transitions in neighboring Ethiopia and Sudan devolving into brutal civil wars.
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The collapse of the 2018–19 political transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan was one of the great African tragedies of the past decade. Three main factors caused these promising democratic openings to...
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In our annual Africa issue, Bamba Ndiaye (@TheAfricanistP1) details how youth activism for decades has challenged Senegal's political establishment and defended the country's democracy, most recently driving an opposition victory in the 2024 election.
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When President Macky Sall took an authoritarian turn, young people mobilized once again to preserve Senegalese democracy. Youth political engagement has been influential in Senegal since the 1960s...
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In memoriam: Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a long-serving Current History contributing editor. Enjoy free access to this essay he contributed to the journal, now timelier than ever:.
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The rise of digital networks is diffusing power to new players. Fourth in a series on soft power.
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In our annual Africa issue, @emmanuelmogend1 shows how Botswana’s widely praised conservation regime has infringed on the rights of communities living adjacent to nature reserves, favoring the interests of the influential tourism industry.
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Nature conservation has been key to Botswana’s emergence as a democratic and economic model among African states. Under the stewardship of the Botswana Democratic Party, the country was internation...
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In our new issue, @FaeezaBallim traces the history of political entanglements of South Africa's state-owned electricity supplier Eskom, from apartheid technopolitics to the recent state capture scandal and the struggle to overcome chronic power outages.
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Since 2007, South Africa has struggled with a worsening shortage of electricity. By the 2020s, it appeared that there was no end in sight to “load shedding,” or scheduled periods of electricity...
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RT @MikeWoldemariam: My recent essay in Current History on post-2018/19 transitional crises in Ethiopia and Sudan, reflecting on their broa….
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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our new issue by @MikeWoldemariam on the parallel factors that led promising political transitions in both Ethiopia and Sudan to derail into civil wars.
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The collapse of the 2018–19 political transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan was one of the great African tragedies of the past decade. Three main factors caused these promising democratic openings to...
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RT @TheAfricanistP1: Latest piece. Ndiaye explores youth political engagement in Senegal's 🇸🇳 2024 presidential election, highlighting the….
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More in our May issue: @TheAfricanistP1 on youth activism and democracy in Senegal, @ursulamread and @ayork6 on pluralistic mental health care in Ghana, and @DanielAgbiboa on surviving state neglect in Nigeria, plus a review of a biography of Frantz Fanon.
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Our annual Africa issue is out! With @MikeWoldemariam on derailed transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan, @FaeezaBallim on South African electricity politics, @emmanuelmogend1 on conservation debates at the core of Botswana’s green state….
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Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our latest issue: @nha3383 on the politics of intensifying extreme heat in Karachi and other South Asian cities:.
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Home to a quarter of the world’s population, South Asia is at the forefront of extreme heat. The politics of extreme heat in South Asia involves the social implications of its effects on poor and...
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In our annual South Asia issue, Nile Green reviews a perambulating history of Lahore—and of the erasing of its pluralistic past—by Manan Ahmed Asif.
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A historian searches Lahore on foot for traces of a pluralistic past, obscured by monolithic official histories of the modern nation.
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In our latest issue, Nira Wickramasinghe (@UniLeiden) explains how Sri Lanka’s left, once known for its radicalism and intolerance, broadened its appeal and positioned itself to win power in 2024 after catastrophic failures of right-wing rule.
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Two years after protests ousted an authoritarian conservative ruler who had plunged the country into an economic collapse, voters turned to a party of former Marxist rebels in hopes of a new, more...
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